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Being a noob I fail to get this comment he have of (recovery mode) and why it is ro single

Single as in single user and not multi user mode?

My question is about the UUID root=UUID=5d64478e-4b2e-4c06-a74f-1a06d77a03fa

Does every Linux Mint have a similar UUID and is it for the software at update to know which update to send? How do I find out which UUID my LM has. I use the LinuxMint-5-r1.iso and want to do a frugal install of it.

In the line "root" it's the way grub works. Grub starts from zero and always uses hd. So the one in (hd0,1) is sda2.

That one could help me install mint in frugal mode maybe. But I am not sure if I should cause my ISP seems to think me is not there cause Mint hide me from their ping. So connection dies within some 30 minutes or so.

Fortunately it usually get back if I unplug and plug the cable in again.

But Mint lack some of the mplayer installs too and I prefer to find a distro that has it all from scratch cause as a noob I always fail doing synaptic and such.